Africa a little 100 years ago.

[Cobalt Sire]

They were trading muskets etc. Look at the dates on that map....cacs had Maxim guns. That's throw the damn towel shyt

There's a reason why colonisation on a mass scale happened towards the end of the 19th Century despite Africans and Europeans being in contact/trading for hundreds of years prior. The balance of power changed rapidly with the industrial revolution. Japan saw what was going down and industrialised expeditiously.

You forget that they developed medicines to survive Africa's environment in the 1800s. They were finally able to bring armies into Africa, whereas before they were stuck on the coasts. Also, the slave trades destroyed prosperity, decreased population numbers in half, and caused a lot more division in large swaths of Africa by the 1800s. If it was easy to play black people against each other in the 1600s, it was even easier by the 1800s. I don't believe the machine guns were necessary.

 

[TheSpook]

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stop quoting me breh. history never taught me that.

I'm not here for arguments just discussion... your name and rep is already raising flags so I don't want no conversation with you... I smell agent activity

Yea when africans were conquering other nations that had nothing to do with them they did it peacefully. you didnt learn much obviously

 

[get these nets]

Fam the problem with a lot of remedial people on this board is that their only source of history is the white man ....

If i came in here and posted the white mans history of the United States they would be up in arms ....

I have actually been to these places to see where these Kingdoms once were , and I learnt the history from the indigenes of these places


A lot of people have an inferiority complex , and it seems to bother them that others dont have that feeling , so they try and do this thing where they think that maybe if they show you how fukked the place you are from or your people are you might feel like them

it never works .... I do not want to be anything else , Im proud as fukk , and the funny thing is I never even need to shyt on any one to feel good about myself and where Im from

work on your self esteem

The thing is there are AA, Caribbean, and continental African scholars documenting the truth for decades now. Some of those truths are uncomfortable, but we get a clear picture devoid of racist lies and propaganda written by previous historians. Me? I like to know the truth. I don't need the lullabies that some misguided people promote in an effort to combat white lies. I'm not a child, after all.

Anyway, the generation that is alive now has greater access to information than any previous one. Thanks to the works of older scholars, there are Black history departments at colleges across the globe. They churn out articles,journals, books, lectures, and projects about African, diasporan, and world history every month. The print books are DIRT cheap now as information becomes more digital.

Person who is ignorant about a period of history, or is misinformed by a clown YTer....it's not because they don't have access to information. They are just not interested enough to read it for themselves.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Yea when africans were conquering other nations that had nothing to do with them they did it peacefully. you didnt learn much obviously

stop quoting me. always peep the motive and the narrative. right now you are trying to vilify Black people on the same level as White colonizers. What would be the benefit of that? Don't waste your time tryna argue with me. I see thru your intentions.



have a better day

 

[Harry Sax]

There were tribal lands, kingdoms and chiefdoms. saying because we didn't shape our world the same way Europeans did their means we didn't have unity is false. The world just changed and we got swept up in it and had to adapt rapidly. Trans Atlantic Slave trade applies to a minority of Africa. Yet Colonialism applied to a vast majority.

They bought and stole people and enslaved others right at home. Whatever happened was going to happen regardless. We didn't have the artillery power or the foresight to predict the level of malicious intent demons carry. There was no memo going out saying the world was trying to destroy us.

Today there is a race consciousness that didn't exist back then.

U sound like a lay down and take it in the booty ass nikka...why fight it if it’s gonna happen huh

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

U sound like a lay down and take it in the booty ass nikka...why fight it if it’s gonna happen huh

nah this ain't jbo take your creative writing there sir

 

[Nemesis]

I'am very much aware what the evil Brits did; they committed genocide in the Kingdom of Benin in 1897. They then looted some 4,000 pieces of art which have never been returned upto today.

exactly ....

Thing about OP is this , Im smarter than him , although thats not difficult , I could see his motives for making this topic ,

If it were a genuine thread about African History or colonialism then maybe I would have entertained him

But obviously he suffers from an inferiority complex and as usual people like him rather than war with the white man who has instilled this complex in him he is too much of a coward and tries to drag down others so that they feel like him ....

Any man that can allow an outsider to influence how he feels about themselves is not a man , doesnt matter whether this outsider is correct or not ,

obviously OP doesnt understand that self esteem comes from within and not what others think about you

Im confident and I think Im the shyt , I always have .... and its not even based on anything , no fact or fiction will change how I feel

 

[Cobalt Sire]

Why is it that Africans are the only
Group that has to be “united” in order to be successful. But Korea, China, Japan operate in competition....

Germany, UK, France operate in competition until the “European union”....

I can't think of a time when all of East Asia was under attack by the outside world. I can't think of a time when all of Europe was under attack by the outside world. The only other group that went through this were Native Americans, and their slave trade didn't last anywhere near as long as ours. Native Americans were mostly killed off by diseases. "The Indian wars of the early 18th century, combined with the growing availability of African slaves, essentially ended the Native American slave trade by 1750.[2][38] Numerous colonial slave traders had been killed in the fighting, and the remaining Native American groups banded together, more determined to face the Europeans from a position of strength rather than be enslaved."

Slavery among Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

 

[TheSpook]

stop quoting me. always peep the motive and the narrative. right now you are trying to vilify Black people on the same level as White colonizers. What would be the benefit of that? Don't waste your time tryna argue with me. I see thru your intentions.



have a better day

Pointing out facts is vilifying....ok. Its not about same level you dork. I'm having a great day fam

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

And Liberia.. until the US started to fukk with it

i thought the reason liberia stayed independent was because the europeans didnt want to piss off americans who had business and political interests there

 

[pete clemenza]

i thought the reason liberia stayed independent was because the europeans didnt want to piss off americans who had business and political interests there

It was still a country/nation before the American interest started and before former African- American slaves we're sent over there to make a new life for themselves. And America was far from a super power at that time in history so I doubt other nations were shook of the US back then

 

[Nemesis]

The thing is there are AA, Caribbean, and continental African scholars documenting the truth for decades now. Some of those truths are uncomfortable, but we get a clear picture devoid of racist lies and propaganda written by previous historians. Me? I like to know the truth. I don't need the lullabies that some misguided people promote in an effort to combat white lies. I'm not a child, after all.

Anyway, the generation that is alive now has greater access to information than any previous one. Thanks to the works of older scholars, there are Black history departments at colleges across the globe. They churn out articles,journals, books, lectures, and projects about African, diasporan, and world history every month. The print books are DIRT cheap now as information becomes more digital.

Person who is ignorant about a period of history, or is misinformed by a clown YTer....it's not because they don't have access to information. They are just not interested enough to read it for themselves.

The generation now have the greatest access and never use it

secondly if you are ignorant about a piece of history then why is the person posting an opinion they know nothing about ? whats the motive ?

like i said OP is not smarter than me and I can see through him

Im not a Beta passive aggressive male that needs to try and shyt on people to hide my own complexes , its that simple

And no disrespect but I dont feel uncomfortable about history , I know it may seem alien to you but I dont .... maybe i should repeat myself no outsider can dictate how i feel about myself whether he speaks the truth or not

The real shame of it is , not what he tried to do , its expected ..... its that he used the white man as a source

 

[MoneyTron]

Anyone suggesting that the African continent was overrun by Europeans because Africans didn't "unite" is being silly.

I seriously doubt any of them viewed each other in that manner, not to mention that there was probably almost no contact between the tribes of north, central, and south Africa during that time for various reasons.

 

[Sbp]

The thing is there are AA, Caribbean, and continental African scholars documenting the truth for decades now. Some of those truths are uncomfortable, but we get a clear picture devoid of racist lies and propaganda written by previous historians. Me? I like to know the truth. I don't need the lullabies that some misguided people promote in an effort to combat white lies. I'm not a child, after all.

Anyway, the generation that is alive now has greater access to information than any previous one. Thanks to the works of older scholars, there are Black history departments at colleges across the globe. They churn out articles,journals, books, lectures, and projects about African, diasporan, and world history every month. The print books are DIRT cheap now as information becomes more digital.

Person who is ignorant about a period of history, or is misinformed by a clown YTer....it's not because they don't have access to information. They are just not interested enough to read it for themselves.

Recommend me some books bro. Don't matter region. I'm interested in the whole continent.

 

[The Fade]

Trade imbalance too right? Heard Arabs were withholding guns and kept trying to invade. And were still getting spanked